File Sharing Can Ruin Your Privacy

Every single day, we all hear or read about how important it is for all of us to keep our online privacy safe and secure. It’s about anonymity, encryption and hiding your personal identity suggested by the Edward Snowden and Kevin Mitnick. But, who cares. Ignore them. They’re lunatics involved in a joint Illuminati / Scientologist conspiracy. That’s how some file sharers think while doing everything to make their online life public. In short, file sharing can ruin your privacy.

Now, what Internet users need is a more careful approach to online surveillance, one that allows them to keep an open eye and stay away from any blissful ignorance.

Most file sharers don’t know that while operating in the world of file-sharing it is absolutely vital to lay down an easily followed trail of information. Here are some examples which may kill the confusion.

Never Use The Real Name

Always use a fake name when registering for the file-sharing websites. Let’s say if your name is Dave Mark Anthony and you used Dave MA or Dave M that is definitely a wrong practice. Especially, when people in negligence select name with their real date of birth which would ease the work for eavesdroppers.

The best practice is to choose a name that has no resemblance to your first, middle or sir name. Never ever use your real date of birth as part of your registration email or username.

Most of the time, to provide us ease file sharing websites offer an option to register with your Facebook or any other social profile. Never ever link your active social media profiles with any file-sharing website. It will increase the chances of intrusion. Just imagine, with one single social profile a person can know everything about you. It is very easy to get the details out from one’s profile.

Combining it with the first part, never use the real name, it is also very important to keep in your mind that never use the same nick name you have on your social profile on the file-sharing website. This can also lead a trail of information.

Keep your fingers away from clicking on like buttons and sharing file-sharing websites on your active social profiles.

Use Unique and Complicated Passwords

Well, if you must need to use a social profile for linking it to any file-sharing website then try making a fake profile with completely fake information. But, the catch is never use the same password on your fake social profile and on file sharing website. Each and every password should be separated by unique and complicated combination of alphabets, numbers and characters.

Never Make Close Friends on File-Sharing Websites

Great friendships can be built on file-sharing sites but in order to minimize the risks of a major privacy invasion, personal information must be forbidden from given freely to these almost complete strangers.

It is very easy to turn a friend in to an enemy. File-sharing is all about sharing an access to your laptop or PC to a stranger. It is also very hard to identify the person at first, but if you must then keep it simple and limited. Never trust blindly on anyone and keep your personal information intact.

The End Thought

As the above shows, with practice it’s easy to completely compromise one’s privacy, whether participating in the file-sharing space or elsewhere. But, keeping the above point in consideration all the time during everyday routine one can easily protect his/her privacy.